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Original Sanskrit texts on the origin and history of the people of India, their religion and institutions (1868)

Author: Muir, J. (John), 1810-1882
Volume: 1
Subject: Vedas; Brahmanism; Caste -- India; Sanskrit literature; Indo-Aryans; Indo-Europeans; Indo-Iranians; Hinduism
Publisher: London : Trübner
Year: 1868
Language: English
Call number: 3625922
Digitizing sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Book contributor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Collection: worksintranslation; americana

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v. 1. Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age. 1868 -- v. 2. Inquiry whether the Hindus are of Trans-Himalayan origin, and akin to the western branches of the Indo-European race. 1871 -- v. 3. The Vedas: opinions of their authors and of later Indian writers on their origin, inspiration, and authority. 1868 -- v. 4. Comparison of the Vedic with the later representations of the principal Indian deities. -- v. 5. Contributions to a knowledge of the cosmogony, mythology, religious ideas, life and manners, of the Indians in the Vedic age

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